what is ONE thing you'd like to see changed/added/removed in FFXIV ARR?

If you had to pick one thing that you didn't like about this game, what would be the top item on your list? Is there any one thing holding you back from really enjoying this game? What one thing are you waiting for or hope they address in the future? I know we all have a long list of things we'd like to see happen, but I'd like to see one at a time and see what people actually agree with and what people just don't think would be a good one thing.

Please try and pick something that seems possible to implement to ARR, not something that would require re-working the entire game system to cater to your wants. Also per the form tradition, try to "like" things you agree with instead of reposting those items. Let's give the devs some ideas we can look forward to.

Its not really a big gripe but I would love to be able to use my chocobo while I was waiting for duty finder...

This been said so many times but I would like to be able to Summon Cabuncle when i'm a level 50 summoner I don't want to have to change to my Class job to Summon him. Nether do i want Garuda to take his place when i'm a Summon why can't I summon him as a Summoner. And i do wish the Egis looked a bit bigger and looked better. Leivian forgot how to spell it once we get him as a Egi i can picture it looking like a tiny flying snake.

Option in Duty Finder for players who have cleared Duty previously could play with each other.

Fix "The target is out of range" problem.

Remove FATEs. The whole game, events and everything will be better if they remove that shitty system.

Make instant cast abilities go off instantly

Goddamn weekly lockouts on content with with RNG drops in large loot pools. It's a horrible system. You could have been clearing coils since september and never even see some drops for your class. How is that fun or fair? Add a token system or something for people that get boned by range. Or reduce the lockout so people can at least get more chances at rolling the dice.

It sucks to see people that are great players not get gear even though they've been completing the content for months now, all because of something completely and totally out of their control. All while at the same time someone can go through coil one time and get more drops than some people have gotten in months. It's frustrating and upsetting. Horrible system.

And screw that "But then people will gear up so fast and have nothing to do and quit" crap. No they won't. Sure, some poop sockers might. But it'll still take a while because of range, and because they'll gear up multiple jobs. But most people in this game aren't mega badasses who can one-shot things over and over. Especially not anything that is sorta-semi-difficult. Just DF anything slightly hard like garuda ex, or pug turn 4. It's brutal. Most people aren't going to be able to farm anything that isn't derp-proof. There were people that struggled to get full DL for the longest time ffs. They're not going to binge farm coils.

But yeah, or a token system. That works too. Anything to improve the current crappy as balls weekly lockout plus ridiculous large loot pool rangefest would be great. Anything. For the love of Odin, anything.

To send mail to my mules.

People who complain for unreasonably high expectations?

Does that count or is that constitute as a unreasonably high expectation in itself?

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Originally Posted by Miburo

Goddamn weekly lockouts on content with with RNG drops in large loot pools. It's a horrible system. You could have been clearing coils since september and never even see some drops for your class.

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I've seen plenty of healer drops from running coil over the last few weeks... I'm yet to get any tho seem to keep losing the dice rolls...

Changed: Exploration and World.
Added: Seamless world, bigger maps, more exploration options and archivements, water traveling, even jumping puzzles and so.
Removed: Invisible walls, if i want to jump to my death, i should be able to do it.

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Originally Posted by Ed_N_Ants

I've seen plenty of healer drops from running coil over the last few weeks... I'm yet to get any tho seem to keep losing the dice rolls...

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That blows, sorry to hear that. I was using my bro as an example in that post, he's been doing coil weekly since sept. and hasn't even seen the healing hands once. He's crazy good, yet constantly gets boned in coil. He's gotten 3 healer drops the entire time, I think. And it wouldn't surprise me if he's luckier than some people with just that. Even though he's use to it by now, I still feel bad seeing it happen week after week. = (

It'd be great if there was a token system or something so you at least get something for completing the content, even if you're unlucky as crap. Even if it was something like 5 clears = one drop then you're still making progress. I've seen people argue that the myth stones are the 'tokens', but the dudes that get drops get myth too. So they're still ahead of people who get boned week after week. Not because they're better players, but simply because the random luck god smiled favorably upon them.

Summoners to get Thunder back.

There's plenty I want changed >.> But just to name one, I kind of wish all races/genders had their own motions for skills or holding weapons. It's kind of plain and boring that everyone does everything the same.

Claiming system. Yes, you heard it right, claiming system. So, only you can hit mobs you claimed. It's easy to change and would immideatly add depth to battle system.

P.S. Yeah, removing FATE system is actually better on second thought, but I don't see it ever happening.

Those myth stones are given other places then coil... Last time i checked your myth tomes cant buy allagan gear its coil drop only... Not to mention I dont have a static so it makes every drop a gamble...

Battle Leves should be balanced around party play again. Increase the difficulty level, give bonus for leve link and for every member in the party. And give us back faction leves.

They can be a good open-world party content, if there would be just a reason to do them in a party instead of solo.

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Originally Posted by Vantol

Claiming system. Yes, you heard it right, claiming system. So, only you can hit mobs you claimed. It's easy to change and would immideatly add depth to battle system.

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But it is the same claiming system as in 1.23. Better than the claiming system before, where you only could claimed 1 monster the most time and not more.
Important text macro at the beginning of a behest: "Don't kill a monster with a yellow name. If the name don't change to red, stop the attack and look which monster is currently claimed"

I'd like to see more interesting materia/gear options. It's all just higher numbers of the same few stats. That's why I enjoyed Diablo 2 so much more than Diablo 3. There was no excitement getting new gear, even if it was amazing, because it was so boring!

I want to be able to duty roulette with my friend. As it is now, we're forced to play separately just so we can get our daily bonus.

And yes, being able to send mail to our alts would be really helpful. I wish we could send unbound untradeable gear to our alts too. I chose to make a separate character for my BLM because I wanted two characters, but then I can't share loot drops. Having a piece of DRG allagan gear in my BLM's inventory is just too cruel.

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Originally Posted by Alexander_Dragonfang

Changed: Exploration and World.
Added: Seamless world, bigger maps, more exploration options and archivements, water traveling, even jumping puzzles and so.
Removed: Invisible walls, if i want to jump to my death, i should be able to do it.

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This, pretty much. I could forgive a LOT of faults if the world was enormous and dangerous to explore with some neat stuff and places to find (actual open world dungeons like FFXII had would be nice). Right now the overworld feels like a bunch of hallways to get to the next outpost or town 20 feet away.

First choice- Fates: auto scale them based on number of players participating in them. People may be encouraged to try them as they are traveling the zones. So many FATES are never even attempted by most players. People might learn to enjoy them again.
Runner up- Dungeons: remove time limit. It discourages taking the time to help new players learn the area. It also makes you want to vote-kick if there is a wipe =/

The one thing I'd really like to see added to the game is a second Job for each Class, especially if it adds Roles the Class doesn't currently have. I really like that Arcanist has two Jobs with different Roles.

I think a big thing I'd like to change would be for more of the end game gear to be dye-able. Kind of bugs me that even the non-AF endgame pieces can't be dyed.

More professions. >.> Maybe a chocobo breeding program or variety in companions.

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Originally Posted by LioJen

This, pretty much. I could forgive a LOT of faults if the world was enormous and dangerous to explore with some neat stuff and places to find (actual open world dungeons like FFXII had would be nice). Right now the overworld feels like a bunch of hallways to get to the next outpost or town 20 feet away.

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They tried that in 1.0 - it failed, horribly. It was in fact the game's major fault that was universally accepted - that to accomplish the 'seamless' open world design, they had to sacrifice other things just to make the game work, such as the fact zones were, in fact, virtually empty, that the same environment model was endless copied and pasted, that textures had little detail. So yeah, 'large open world' will never be coming back - ARR was designed specifically to avoid that.

bigger world or remove all the teleport to here and there spots to make it seem bigger.

added?

Primal Summonings for Free Companies.

(which was in fact announced from Yoshi-P on E3 2012)

One of each!

Add:
Musketeer and its associated Job, Corsair. I seriously need another ranged class to level up. D:

Removed:
Dungeon timers. They serve no purpose whatsoever!

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Implement a Time Attack mode for all dungeons (i.e. Cutter's Cry, the Aurum Vale, etc). This mode would actually make use of a timer, but instead of the current limit, instead you would start the dungeon with very little time on the clock (around five minutes to start). Killing mobs would extend your timer slightly. Killing bosses would extend it even further. Best times for completion could be posted to a leaderboard on the Lodestone. Time Attack dungeons would not drop normal loot and would Level Sync you down to a specific item level to prevent over-gearing the encounters. Completing a Time Attack dungeon would give you special tokens based on your score at the end which could be used to purchase unique items not obtainable anywhere else, including vanity items.

Change the director/producer.

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Originally Posted by Purrfectstorm

I'd like to see more interesting materia/gear options. It's all just higher numbers of the same few stats. That's why I enjoyed Diablo 2 so much more than Diablo 3. There was no excitement getting new gear, even if it was amazing, because it was so boring!

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This....this....and 100 times this. They need to add back unique effects/abilities to gear. I still have no idea why they would even remove them from the transition from 1.0 to 2.0.

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Originally Posted by synaesthetic

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Implement a Time Attack mode for all dungeons (i.e. Cutter's Cry, the Aurum Vale, etc). This mode would actually make use of a timer, but instead of the current limit, instead you would start the dungeon with very little time on the clock (around five minutes to start). Killing mobs would extend your timer slightly. Killing bosses would extend it even further. Best times for completion could be posted to a leaderboard on the Lodestone. Time Attack dungeons would not drop normal loot and would Level Sync you down to a specific item level to prevent over-gearing the encounters. Completing a Time Attack dungeon would give you special tokens based on your score at the end which could be used to purchase unique items not obtainable anywhere else, including vanity items.

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I second the time attack suggestion, that sounds absolutely amazing :D

Mystic Knight, as promised in 1.0. Only don't make it a DD - Give it a spin, make it a tanking class, and watch all of the lack of tank problems vanish simply from people picking it up because it's new and shiny.

Edit: Potentially, Rune Knight as a class which branches into two jobs, Mystic Knight (tank) and Spell Fencer (DD). Win win.

I would like to see more "general" abilities added that we can earn and share over multiple classes. Seems with the job system, even though we can share abilities with other classes, that the abilities we can share are useless or watered down version of the full ability. If I am a 50 WAR and I unlock the ability to make Bloodbath last longer, or if I unlock "blind" when I flash enemies with PLD, why then do I not get the full effect of these abilities when I share with other classes? Why can't I have useful abilities I can share with other classes? Why can I use "cure" as a BLM, but cure for only 2HP and not a decent viable amount? Why can I have "raise" as a marauder, but never have enough MP to cast it?

Addition of Sky or Sea like open world content.

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Originally Posted by Uriahnool

I would like to see more "general" abilities added that we can earn and share over multiple classes. Seems with the job system, even though we can share abilities with other classes, that the abilities we can share are useless or watered down version of the full ability. If I am a 50 WAR and I unlock the ability to make Bloodbath last longer, or if I unlock "blind" when I flash enemies with PLD, why then do I not get the full effect of these abilities when I share with other classes? Why can't I have useful abilities I can share with other classes? Why can I use "cure" as a BLM, but cure for only 2HP and not a decent viable amount? Why can I have "raise" as a marauder, but never have enough MP to cast it?

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The reason for that is simply because abilities that can be used cross class are more effective on their main class due to the fact the native class gains traits specifically there to boost that ablity's effectiveness. It's why Protect is stronger when cast by CNJ/WHM (due to Proshell), why Stoneskin works better when cast by CNJ/WHM (Graniteskin), why Flash works better when used with GLA/PLD (Improved Flash), etc etc.

Healing spells like Cure are a little more complex though - curing potency is based around MND, and as most classes don't have native MND boosts, hence the spell is rather ineffective on any class other than CNJ/WHM (not to mention the MND and Cure potency boosting traits CNJ gets anyway).

You can't use traits cross class so hence abilities become more gimp when they're cross classed. 1.0's original launch actually had all abilities being able to be used cross class with virtually no noticible penalty for doing so - players didn't like that though and wanted classes to be more unique and thus the end result is the system we now have. I guess you can't have your cake and eat it too.

I wish they would remove completely the stat point allocation system (which is totally useless since every job stacks points in only one stat anyway) and put in its place a system that actually gives more personalization to your jobs and skills, like a trait management system for example.